Napoli can be crowned Italian champions already this coming Sunday.
Napoli fans met the team at the airport. PDO
It wasn’t supposed to go this way.
Owner of Naples Aurelio De Laurentiis decided to lighten his club’s salary burden last spring. Star top Kalidou Koulibaly sold for big money to Chelsea, playmaker Fabián Ruiz found a new home at PSG.
The fans especially cried for their captain and native Neapolitan Lorenzo Insigne move to MLS club Toronto.
The head coach Luciano Spalletti got completely unknown players from South Korea, Georgia and Cameroon to work with.
Spalletti worked a miracle. Today, a topper Kim Min-jaepier Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and an old-school midfield dynamo André-Frank Zambo in Angui belong to the hottest players in Europe.
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Zambo Anguissa filmed from the window of the bus how a huge crowd escorted the players to their accommodation.
The championship is secured
The reason is clear: Napoli will win the third Italian championship in its history. The previous two came Diego Maradona under management (1987 and 1990). After that, the club even sank to the third division, if De Laurentiis saved it in 2004.
The story will possibly culminate this coming weekend if Napoli beat Salernitania at home and Lazio drop points to Inter. In that case, the Blues will celebrate the Scudetto already on Sunday, six rounds before the end of Serie A.
Mathematical confirmation came, whether in the next or the next round, it is already certain that the home stadium named after Diego Armando Maradona will be allowed to receive his own team as the Italian champion.
The matter was confirmed in practice on Sunday, when Napoli went for a 1-0 away win against Juventus Substitute by Giacomo Raspadori 93rd minute volley.
The dramatic victory already started wild celebrations in the Campania capital. The whole of Naples was already completely confused when the team returned from Turin in the morning.
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The party had already started at the airport. And they will certainly continue well into the summer.
Napoli has deserved its celebration, but some fans are already afraid of what the future holds. It is certain that Kim’s, Kvaratskhelia’s, Zambo Anguissa’s and the goal stick by Victor Osimhen all the big clubs in Europe are already behind.
De Laurentiis should conjure a new rabbit out of the hat so that he can keep his champion team together next season as well.